var scrollText = new Array(); //do this, this way, because we don't know how many alerts there will be.
		var scrollItems =1;
		var scrollCounter =0;
		var initlen = 0;
		var cnt = 0;
		
		function do_rev_scrolling(strval)
		{
			oScrollDiv = document.getElementById('scroll1');
			oScrollDiv.innerHTML = strval;
			cnt--;

			strval = strval.substring(strval.indexOf('>')+1);
			strval = strval.substring(0,strval.length-4);
			if (initlen = 0)
			{
				initlen = strval.length;
			}

			if (strval.length>1)
			{
				if(strval.length>5)
				{
					if(strval.substring(strval.length-6,strval.length)==' ')
					{
						strval = strval.substring(0,strval.length-6);
						strval = ' ' + strval;
						
					}
					else
					{
						oldval = strval.substring(strval.length-1,1);
						strval = strval.substring(0,strval.length-1);
						strval = oldval + strval;	
					}
				}
				else
				{
					strval = strval.substring(1,strval.length);
				}
			}

			strval = '<a href="markets/kaiser-aluminum-surcharge-information">' + strval + '</a>';

			if (cnt >=0)
			{
				setTimeout("do_rev_scrolling('" + strval + "')",125);
			}
		}
		
		function do_scrolling(strval)
		{
			oScrollDiv = document.getElementById('scroll1');
			oScrollDiv.innerHTML = strval;
			if (strval.length>1)
			{
				if(strval.length>5)
				{
					if(strval.substring(0,6)=='&nbsp;')
					{
						strval = strval.substring(6,strval.length);
						strval = strval + "&nbsp;";
					}
					else
					{
						oldval = strval.substring(0,1);
						strval = strval.substring(1,strval.length);
						strval = strval + oldval;
					}
				}
				else
				{
					strval = strval.substring(1,strval.length);
				}
			}

			if (strval.length == 0)
			{
				if (scrollCounter == scrollItems-1)
				{
					scrollCounter = 0;
				}
				else
				{
					scrollCounter++;
				}


				strval = scrollText[scrollCounter];
			}

			if (strval.length == 1)
			{
				strval = ""
			}

			setTimeout("do_scrolling('" + strval + "')",100);
		
		}

		
		
		
		function readScrollData()
		{
			//since not pulling from a feed... hand coding the stream
			var xmlString = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><item><title></title><link>/</link></item></channel></rss>';
			var strval = "";
			for(var y = 0;y<35;y++)
			{
				strval+="&nbsp;";
			}
				
				scrollText[0] =  strval + "Kaiser&nbsp;Surcharge&nbsp;Information";
			
		
			do_scrolling(scrollText[0]);
		}
	
		function getScrollData()
		{
			var req = newXMLHttpRequest();
			var handlerFunction = getReadyStateHandler(req,readScrollData);
			var strSendString;
			var date1 = new Date;

			req.onreadystatechange = handlerFunction;
			var strURL = "<?=get_bloginfo('wpurl');?>" + "/category/alerts/feed"
			req.open("GET",strURL,true);
			req.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
			req.send(null);
			return;
		}